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I once spent a lot on time on a similar problem. Eventually I discovered it was just 133-character lines being wrapped around when displayed.
Increasing the Record length on the output file solved ...

In some situations the production file name is closer to 44 and it exceeds 44 if ID for each test regions has to be inserted in DSN.
So this requires a different test file name and overrides in JCLs ...

Or just use the Compare program built into ISPF. That can be run in batch mode.

While Sort can do this, if the task is compares, it's probably easier to start with a utility designed for that ta ...

Thank you for the detailed explanation. It is very useful.
SantoshEven more useful in a system, is tight editing of input data, so you don't end up with crap like this in a packed numeric field!

Kolusu -- won't that insert the '50' for every Vehicle interst income line?
OP wanted this only for certain cities within the file. I think the 3rd line of the file has the city name.

It seems to me that the simplest way to do this is the best, especially when you don't know who will be doing maintenance in the future.

And the simplest would be to just take that DELETE stateme ...

My suggestion would be to copy that one record you want to a temporary file. delete the original file, then rename the 1-record temp file to the original name.

I do this frequently with a single SPF Edit command:
Change "</TD>" "</TD>[cr][lf]"
(You will have to replace the [cd] and [lf] with the hex codes for ...

Or a single SPF Edit command on the output file:
Change ", " " " ALL

done either online in a Edit session or a batch step in the job.

Such an edit of the output report sh ...

Frankly, this is an absolutely silly task!

Given how incredibly cheap storage is nowadays, the time you spend on this it will probably cost the organization way more than the cost of the storage sp ...

Not sure about Rexx, but in batch ISPF Edit, do this:
CHANGE "|' " "' " ALL

This kind of error is usually related to the OS detecting a problem with the length of the specific record being read. Like, for example, you are working with a data field in column 20, but you happe ...

There is effectively NO relation between the clock start time & end time, and the CPU time used. Because the mainframe is shared, and is running many other jobs besides yours at the same time, pl ...

Also, they are taking twice as much space as needed -- wasting half of it.

You can easily store a MMDDYY date in just 2 bytes -- 4 bits for month, 5 bits for day, and year in the remaining 7 bits. ...

Wow!

It's only been 15 years or so, and some designers have forgotten about the problems of storing years as a 2-digit field. The ability of some humans to fail to learn from experience is unlim ...